Oregon Health Authority News

by | Sep 9, 2011 | Learn

Here’s the latest bulletin from the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Health Policy Board. To get email updates from the OHA, please sign up at their website. News this Month First HB 3650 work groups meet (summaries of each group’s first meeting in...

Wrap-up Report on Oregon 2011 Legislative Session

by | Sep 9, 2011 | Learn

The League of Women Voters® of Oregon has produced an in-depth summary of this year’s session. Like the rest of the report, the section on health attempts to report on both the bills passed and the other issues discussed: Public Health Division: Early childhood...

Food’s New Foot Soldiers Against Childhood Obesity

by | Sep 9, 2011 | Learn

In his New York Times column, Mark Bittman writes about FoodCorps, a national service program that aims to improve nutrition education for children, develop school gardening projects and change what’s being served on school lunch trays. Is FoodCorps necessary? The...

Oregon Health Authority Seeks Public Input

by | Sep 1, 2011 | Act, Learn

I am on one of the Transformation Committees and just received this from the Oregon Health Authority. All Oregonians should take time to provide input. Dear work group members, The Oregon Health Authority work group public input page is now up and running and ready...

Cut Medicare, Help Patients?

by | Aug 30, 2011 | Learn

In an op-ed piece for the New York Times, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Jeffrey B. Liebman warn against “meat-cleaver” cuts and advocate for smart cuts to Medicare: Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term...